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ID number: BIRBI-R2803 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Constantine I; Rome Denomination: Follis Place made: Europe: Italy, Rome Culture: Roman Date made: 312-313 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.30 Weight (g): 5.40 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Haines 3223. Ex P. D. Whitting Collection (purchased at special price of 1/- each), 1957. |

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Description: Obverse: Head of Constantine, wearing laurel wreath, cuirassed, facing r. Reverse: Sol, naked but cloaked and radiate, standing facing l., raising r. hand and holding globe in l.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP C CONSTHNTINVS P F HVC (Imperator Caesar Constantine Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: SOLI INIII-C-TO COMITI (To the Invincible Sol, Minister [to the Emperor]). In Exergue: RQ
Bibliography: RIC VI 317
Notes: According to RIC, the RQ in the exergue of the reverse are mintmarks indicating Rome.
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